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Educators at this school find that their book club helps build the teacher community and provides a vehicle for support when needed.

When a student has trouble connecting with his new class, the icebreaker can be a book, family photo or picture that connects the child to his personal history and offers an opportunity to share.

Writing poetry is an excellent way for students to explore identity and find meaning and value in everyday experiences.

Maybe you’re thinking texting has no place in the classroom. This teacher found some practical applications.

This high school language arts teacher marvels at how his students were engaged in controversial and difficult topics.

Students’ names are an important reflection of identity and culture, as educators, we must put in the time to honor those names and pronunciation.

Mindfulness a not only a great tool to help students focus, but it also helps educators to be more culturally responsive.

I’m constantly struck by the memory of my first time in a jail. It was during a tour as a part of SPLC’s efforts to monitor the conditions of detention facilities. I recall being shocked at how young some of the people looked. When I stepped into the first cellblock, I muttered a prayer. In front of me stood rows and rows of black men. I was sick to my stomach; so many of them looked like they could be my cousins, uncles and other loved ones.

Today, the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC), together with the Opportunity to Learn Campaign, launches Solutions Not Suspensions, a national campaign calling for a moratorium on out-of-school suspensions. Teaching Tolerance supports this initiative.

It was Black History Month. I was working with children and youth in an after-school program in the Clarksdale housing projects in Louisville, Ky. Spike Lee's film Malcolm X had just been released. I sat around a table with a group of teenagers discussing Alex Haley’s Autobiography of Malcolm X and James Cone’s Martin & Malcolm & America.